Continuum Mechanics

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Summary: Continuum Mechanics
Review: An excelent text on Continuum Mechanics form the view point af an Applied Mathematician

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Summary: Continuum Mechanics made Simple
Review: In this book, suffix notation is presented in a short but comprehensive manner. All the disciplines of mechanics using notations of tensors and vectors, are readily understandable and coherent.

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Summary: Continuum Mechanics made Simple
Review: In this book, suffix notation is presented in a short but comprehensive manner. All the disciplines of mechanics using notations of tensors and vectors, are readily understandable and coherent.

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Summary: Tedious and slow to get going
Review: This book contains very little continuum mechanics in it. It starts out with a tedious development of suffix notation, as well as two chapters developing the properties of cartesian tensors of second order. Unfortunately, this includes proving such basic things as the sum of two tensors being a tensor. The author seems to also enjoy avoiding conventional notation wherever possible, and places everything (products of matrices, products of matrices and vectors, cross products) in suffix notation, which blurs clarity quite often for those new to the convention. Furthermore, the fundamental laws of continuum mechanics are delayed until page 325 (the third from last chapter), leaving only two chapters (a measly two-thirds of the book) for elasticity and fluid mechanics. Finally, the style is a fairly strict theorem-proof, which makes it quite a dry read.

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Summary: Nice math book but not enough physics
Review: This book is a nice tensor analysis book, however, basically nothing about constitutive theory (one of the most important results in continuum physics) is presented. There are other continuum mechanics books out there in this price range that are better (e.g. Spencer, Gurtin...etc.)